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NYC racial data
Big data: US 2010 census racial map

Big data: US 2010 census racial map

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NYC racial data
US 2010 census data on race. Each dot is a person and its colour is defined by race.Blue = white, Green = black, Red = asian, Orange = hispanic and Brown = others

 

The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service published an interesting data rich map online the other day. They took all the US 2010 census data about race and decided to plot that on a single map. Each American is represented as a dot (yes that are many dots!).

What becomes clear if you go through the map and zoom in/out is how dense populated some areas are and even more how strong the racial boundaries in cities are. You can clearly see on city block level what race is living where and how badly races mingle. See for example the attached screenshot of New York city. You can clearly see the hispanic, the black and the white neighbourhoods on Manhattan island.

Anyway, have a look yourself, be amazed and share screenshot of regions you find interesting:

http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html

Interesting thought

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These people (+Steven Roberts and others) used +figshare to publish their supplementary data and cite it in their paper. Interesting move for getting this kind of data into the open a bit more on an easy accessible central location.

They cite for example this dataset of themselves: http://goo.gl/m6TB8

Reshared post from +Steven Roberts

Our paper on gene discovery and SNP development in Pacific herring using 454 pyrosequencing just came out in PLoSone!

Development of Genomic Resources for Pacific Herring through Targeted Transcriptome Pyrosequencing

Pacific herring support commercially and culturally important fisheries but have experienced significant additional pressure from a variety of anthropogenic and environmental sources. In order to provide genomic resources to facilitate organismal and population level research, high-throughput pyrosequencing (Roche 454) was carried out on transcriptome libraries from liver and testes samples taken in Prince William Sound, the Bering Sea, and the Gulf of Alaska. Over 40,000 contigs were identified with an average length of 728 bp. We describe an annotated transcriptome as well as a workflow for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery and validation. These genomic resources provide a basis for environmental physiology studies and opportunities for marker development and subsequent population structure analysis.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030908

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Interesting fact: Includes my first citations of #figshare for supplementary material (liver and testes transcriptomes). #openscience #opendata

In album plosone Herring Paper (8 photos)

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